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Burl Audio B80-BMB4 Mothership User Guide
Burl Audio B80-BMB4 Mothership User Guide
MOTHERSHIP
BMB4 Rev A0 Rom A1
1. GETTING STARTED
1.1 Register
Please register all serial numbers for your B80 MOTHERSHIP chassis, all Daughter Cards,
and BP-300 power supply.
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EXAMPLE B: NO JUMPERS ON 1 - 4
BMB4 jumper settings for a 24 in X 32 out system using BAD4
and BDA8 Daughter Cards
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Image 10: Insert the Daughter Card into the card Image 11: Attach the ribbon cable
guides. Make sure the metal Daughter Card to the front panel.
backplate, not PCB, is inserted into the card
guides.
Note: To purchase blanks for empty MOTHERSHIP slots, contact your BURL dealer!
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Image 12: B80 MOTHERSHIP with 1U vents above and below for proper airflow.
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Note: Installing BMB4 SoundGrid Motherboard Driver will also install Waves SoundGrid
Studio.
B80-BMB4 devices must be assigned to a host application. This is done within the
application. Assignment is similar, but not identical, in all SoundGrid host applications.
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For best results, start by removing all other connections to the switch. SoundGrid should be
on its own network. Use different network ports on your computer for other networks (such as
internet).
Image 16: BMB4 Front panel. Set Clock Control to INT, EXT, or SoundGrid.
• When using the B80 on internal clock, set to INT.
• If using external word clock, set to EXT.
• When clocking off SoundGrid network, set to SoundGrid.
For a complete guide to BMB4 Clocking, see page 11.
Image 17: In this example, we are using “Port 1” on the CPU, which is identified as “en0”.
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4. If the B80-BMB4 is not already assigned to the SoundGrid host, click on the arrow in an
empty device slot (See Image 19a below).
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Image 19b: The Burl Audio I/O device will appear in the
device Rack A. Your DAW will appear in the device Rack B.
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All device and driver channels are shown along both the horizontal and vertical axes.
Image 20:
1 1. Select Patch Window.
2. Select Device To Device.
3 3. Maximize DAW. In this example,
our CPU is named “Grover”.
4. Maximize “Burl Audio I/O-1”. In
this example, the MOTHERSHIP is
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5. Patch channel 1 from the
2 MOTHERSHIP to channel 1 of the
Driver.
Image 21:
6. Click and drag from channel 1
downwards diagonally to enable all
inputs from the MOTHERSHIP.
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Image 22:
1 1. Select Patch Window.
3 2. Select Device To Device.
3. Maximize “Burl Audio I/O-1”.
4. Maximize “Bank B-Slot 1”.
5. Patch channel 1 from DAW to
channel 1 of the MOTHERSHIP.
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Image 23:
6. Click and drag from channel 1
downwards diagonally to enable all
outputs from SoundGrid.
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3. BMB4 CLOCKING
There are 3 ways to clock the B80 MOTHERSHIP:
BMB4 set to Internal Clock, External Clock, or Sound Grid
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Image 24: SoundGrid Studio set to “SLAVE”.
5. In SoundGrid Studio, open MOTHERSHIP GUI by clicking on the gear box in the lower
left corner (Image 25).
6. Set Source to “B80 Control”. Soundgrid Studio and GUI sample rates should both
change to follow the B80 (Image 26).
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Image 25: Open GUI Settings. Image 26: Set B80 GUI Source to
“B80 Control”.
NOTE: The MOTHERSHIP will always default to 96k when powered on.
You must manually change the sample rate on the BMB4 front panel.
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Image 27: SoundGrid Studio set to “SLAVE”.
5. In SoundGrid Studio, open MOTHERSHIP GUI by clicking on the gear box in the lower
left corner (Image 28).
6. Set Source to “B80 Control”. Soundgrid Studio and GUI sample rates should both
change to follow the External Clock source (Image 29).
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Image 28: Open GUI Settings. Image 29: Set B80 Gui Source to
“B80 Control”.
NOTE: When using EXT clock, the MOTHERSHIP will not need
to be manually set via the front panel.
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Image 30: SoundGrid Studio set to “MASTER”.
4. In SoundGrid Studio, open MOTHERSHIP GUI by clicking on the gear box in the lower
left corner (Image 31).
5. Set Source to “SoundGrid Internal”. Soundgrid Studio and GUI sample rates should
both change to follow the External Clock source (Image 32).
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Image 31: Open GUI Settings. Image 32: Set B80 GUI Source to
“SoundGrid Internal”.
NOTE: When using the SoundGrid clock, the MOTHERSHIP will not need
to be manually set via the front panel.
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